curriculum vitae

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Born         1957, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA                                   

Education

1986            B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

                    University of Massachusetts, Amherst

                    Connecticut College, New London, CT

Awards and Grants

2017            Exhibition Grant, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ          

2016            Artist in Residence, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

2014            Project Funding, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI

2013-14       Laurie Wagman Artist in Residence Research Funding, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2001            Urban Glass Award; “Innovative Use of Glass in Sculpture”, Brooklyn, NY

1997            Artist's Grant, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.

1995            Artist’s Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts

                    Artist’s Grant, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

1990            Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation

1989            Artist’s Grant, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts

1987            Artist in Residence, ARTPARK, Lewistown, NY

1985            St. Louis Cristalleries, France

About the artist

Daniel Clayman is a sculptor, born in 1957 in Lynn, MA. Always the tinkerer, Daniel had planned a career as a theater lighting designer, studying in the Theater and Dance Department at Connecticut College, eventually dropping out of college to work in the professional theater, dance and opera world. A chance class in 1980 introduced the artist to using glass as a sculptural material. In 1986, He received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has maintained a studio in East Providence, RI since then.

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His interests in engineering, the behavior of light, and the memory of experience, acts as an impetus for much of the work.  In the end, Clayman’s sculpture is a “manifestation of a moment of thought.” Working large and small, he employs technology from the simplest hand tool to the latest three-dimensional modeling and production tools.

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